Koba the Dread

Resumen del libro

Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible. The author's father, Kingsley Amis, was 'a Comintern dogsbody' (as he would come to put it) from 1941 to 1956. His second-closest, and later in life his closest friend, was Robert Conquest, whose book The Great Terror was second only to Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago in undermining the USSR.
Amis's remarkable memoir explores these connections. Stalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere 'statistic'. Koba the Dread, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of Stalin's aphorism.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Martin Amisx{0026}lt;/strong (Swansea, 1949 - Florida, 2023) estudió en Oxford y debutó brillantemente como novelista con x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El libro de Rachel,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong galardonada en 1973 con el Premio Somerset Maugham, publicada en España (en 1985) por Anagrama, al igual que x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Otra gente,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Dinero, Campos de Londres, La flecha del tiempo, La información, Tren nocturno, Niños muertos, Perro callejero, La Casa de los Encuentros, La viuda embarazada, Lionel Asbo.x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El estado de Inglaterra x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong yx{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em La zona de interés,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong los relatos de x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Mar gruesa,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong los ensayos de x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Visitando a Mrs. Nabokov, La guerra contra el cliché, El segundo aviónx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El roce del tiempo,x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y los libros de carácter autobiográfico x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Experienciax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Koba el Temible. x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong Su última obra es x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Desde dentro.x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/p